Heftier Lady Gaga gets the last laugh

Late last month, Lady Gaga posted revealing photos of herself online and talked about her previous struggles with bulimia and anorexia. She revealed she is dieting to get rid of 25 pounds she recently gained. LEONARD ORTIZ, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

Looks like Lady Gaga got the last laugh over the haters commenting cattily on her weight gain.

At a performance in Antwerp, Belgium last weekend, the princess of provocation dived headfirst into a gigantic meat grinder.

The spectacular act of public weight loss happened while Ms. Gaga was performing her song "Poker Face." She was wearing a meat dress and matching meat shoes at the time.

Late last month, Gaga posted revealing photos of herself online and talked about her previous struggles with bulimia and anorexia. She revealed she is dieting to get rid of 25 pounds she recently gained.

"I really don't feel bad about it, not even for a second," Gaga told radio host Elvis Duran on his syndicated morning show. "I have to be on such a strict diet constantly. It's hard because it's a quite vigorous show, so I tend to bulk up, get muscular, and I really don't like that. So I'm trying to find a new balance."

All well and good. But a meat grinder seems like an inappropriate way to drop the pounds, even for a performer who's fond of over-the-top public antics.

Still, the act undoubtedly made perfect sense to her fans, who know she's a ham.

Bond switches to beer

Are you ready for this scene in the next James Bond film? "I'll have a Heineken. Not shaken. Not stirred."

Purists will be horrified, and Ian Fleming is no doubt doing double back flips in his crypt. Even a casual fan knows that Bond would never let anything other than a martini (a Vesper, to be exact – Bond's variation on the classic drink) touch his lips.

But in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Daniel Craig, the current Bond, reveals that in the upcoming "Skyfall" he will be seen sipping on a Heinie.

Craig said that these days, product placement and the bucks it brings can make all the difference in the world of big-budget films.

"Heineken gave us a ton of money for there to be Heineken in a shot in a bar. So, how easy is that? Just to say, OK, there's Heineken. It's there – it's in the back of the shot. Without them, the movie couldn't get sold."

Speaking of drinking, Craig told VF that he has changed his bad boy ways. It's too easy, he said, to be caught in a compromising position these days. (Just ask Kate Middleton.)

"You talk to people in the movie business who have been doing this 40 years and they all say the difference is that, back in the day, you could go and have a drink in the bar, get drunk, fall over, have a good time, relax, whatever, and no one would know about it. But now everyone's got a camera."

Late last month, Lady Gaga posted revealing photos of herself online and talked about her previous struggles with bulimia and anorexia. She revealed she is dieting to get rid of 25 pounds she recently gained. LEONARD ORTIZ, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Daniel Craig, the current James Bond, reveals that in the upcoming Bond film “Skyfall” he will be seen sipping on a Heineken. MATT SAYLES, AP
Jon Stewart will appear in a televised debate with Bill O'Reilly on Saturday. JASON DECROW, AP
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl announced that the band is taking a break. DAVID HALL FOR THE REGISTER

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